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Orazio Schipano

bishop of Belcastro

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ26763906 ↗
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Orazio Schipano (died 1596) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Belcastro (1591–1596).

Biography

On 13 November 1591, Orazio Schipano was appointed during the papacy of Pope Gregory XIV as Bishop of Belcastro. He served as Bishop of Belcastro until his death in 1596.

While bishop, he was the principal co-consecrator of Francesco Monaco, Bishop of Martirano (1592).

References

External links and additional sources

Cheney, David M. "Diocese of Belcastro". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved June 16, 2018. (for Chronology of Bishops) [self-published]

Chow, Gabriel. "Titular Episcopal See of Belcastro (Italy)". GCatholic.org.

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This entry incorporates text from “Orazio Schipano” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.